Markdown conversion is a feature of Edge Security Accelerator (ESA) that returns web page content in Markdown format when a request includes the Accept: text/markdown header. AI agents and automated clients receive clean, structured text without parsing HTML. You can enable it with a single switch in the console.
Enable Markdown conversion
In the ESA console, select Websites, and in the Website column, click the target site.
In the left navigation pane, select .
Turn on the switch for Markdown Conversion.
Request page content in Markdown
After you enable Markdown conversion, add the Accept: text/markdown header when you request a resource. ESA returns the page content in Markdown format. For example:
curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://example.com/pageIf you want the edge to add or modify this request header instead of setting it on the client, see Modify incoming request headers.